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WHKMLA : Canal Construction in Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries

WHKMLA :  Canal Construction in Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries

1 posted on 01/28/2015 1:35:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

You can actually book a room on a luxury barge that will cruise this canal.

frontier travel has a site. It is something else. Like a floating mini-hotel.


4 posted on 01/28/2015 1:37:40 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: SunkenCiv
Originally, the canal was built for commercial purposes, making the transit of wine, grains and wheat safer and quicker by avoiding the pirate-ridden Iberian Peninsula.

Some backwoods historian must not have gotten the message that there were no pirates near the Iberian Peninsula, there have never been pirates near the Iberian Peninsula and that any pirates near the Iberian Peninsula must have been from Spain, with the blessing of the Inquisition.

Wonder what nations would have been near the Iberian Peninsula that could have caused all that trouble?

Must have been Andorra or the Balearic Islands.

9 posted on 01/28/2015 1:53:23 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: SunkenCiv

A pity we don’t have something like that in the States. The C&O Canal isn’t as picturesque.


12 posted on 01/28/2015 2:19:20 PM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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To: SunkenCiv

J’aime beaucoup le Midi. I went to college in Montpellier. We went to Sete once a week just to eat fish caught right there that day. The soupe du poisson... Mmmmm.... And I had a crush on a communiste from carcassone, didn’t know any better. I didn’t like his politics but that long wavy hair, the scarves. And the commie glasses. Lol.


17 posted on 01/28/2015 3:55:28 PM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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18 posted on 01/29/2015 1:23:04 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective.)
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To: Nailbiter

bfl perusal


20 posted on 01/29/2015 1:34:05 AM PST by Nailbiter
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